About Monica Prichard

Artist's statement

My body of work is an exploration of perception. I am continually inspired by the idea that there is not only one way of perceiving things, like objects around us, peoples personalities, or situations and events that occur, but a multitude of ways, achieved by looking at the same thing from different view points, angles, or attitudes. This idea is based on the concept that everybody has their own perception of everything, unique and individual to them alone, beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Meaning that there is an endless variety of different ways of perceiving the same thing including reality.

Through my body of work I wanted to open a viewers mind up to the vast possibilities of different ways of perceiving things, making them consider looking at things differently.

To explore these ideas my experimentation has mainly been focused on utilising the unique qualities of glass, its reflective, transparent and distortion nature, to really play with how a viewer perceives their surroundings.

Each form looks different from various viewing points and reveals things at different times. The shadows and reflections are flat two-dimensional versions of the three dimensional glass shapes and their lines. They are extension of the forms, where real and imagined are joined, signifying the diverse different versions of the same form displayed at the same time. The forms are clear glass so that the viewer can see through them and view all the different perceptions interacting at once.